This paper reviews the literature on China's energy economy, focusing particularly on: i) the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth; ii) China's changing energy intensity; iii) energy demand and energy-non-energy substitution; iv) the emergence of energy markets in China;...

Many are interested in China's energy situation, however, numerous energy related issues in China still remain unanswered. For example, what are the potential forces driving energy demand and supply? Previous reviews focused only on fossil fuel based energy and ignored other important elements...

The paper investigates energy price co-movement over the period 01/1999-12/2005 for China as a whole, and over sub-periods and for seven regions, using panel unit root and panel cointegration tests developed by Pedroni (1999, 2004). The results suggest that not all energy sources are spatially...

Employing the new regression tests for Convergence, Club Convergence and Clustering proposed by Phillips and Sul (2007), this paper models and analyses the behaviour of China's energy sectors. Energy market ‘convergence clusters’ are identified using new price data, and their regional...